The day the music died came earlier than expected at Dempsey's Pub. For a too-short year, the Pub Sessions brought bluegrass cheer to the fledgling bar at 623 Vermont. Young pickers jammed alongside the older generation who came of age at the Walnut Valley Festival in the 1970s. Frequent guests included members of JR & the Juniors, The Calamity Cubes, The Prairie Acre and The Alferd Packer Memorial String Band. The event was free, and the beer flowed freely, especially for the musicians who accepted pints as payment. Then, last fall, it all came to a crashing halt.
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god i miss those days. yet again ascap ruined something origional and pure.
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